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									<h2>International Conference on the Societal Risk Management of Natural Hazards (ICSRM)</h2>
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										Natural hazards - traditionally defined as potentially damaging or destructive natural events that might occur in the future - can have a devastating impact on society. Throughout the world each year, natural disasters kill approximately 80,000 people, render millions homeless, and result in economic losses of $50 billion-$60 billion. While the general field of risk analysis has made significant progress in recent decades in quantifying the expected physical damage associated with natural events, all countries face decisions on the level of acceptable risk its citizens should face in the built or modified natural environment. Robust building codes, land-use development restrictions, and environmental preservation policies can all lead to reduced risk exposure to natural hazards, but they exact a cost in terms of economic development and immediate amenities.
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										The premise for the conference is that successful policy in the area of risk management requires the technical expertise of engineers; the legal, cultural, political, environmental and economic expertise of social scientists and legal scholars; and the ethical expertise of philosophers. The goal of the workshop is therefore to bring together leading minds in engineering, philosophy, law, and psychology to identify foundational directions and approaches to societal risk management of natural hazards.
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										<li>the appropriate tradeoff between immediate needs and future potential devastation, including how to balance mitigating low-probability but high-consequence events in light of more immediate and definite needs of society;</li>
										<li>the extent to which decisions concerning these risks should be publicly debated and decided;</li>
										<li>the moral and behavioral significance of the source of a risk, or how a risk is created and maintained in the built environment; and</li>
										<li>the principles that should be used to assess moral and legal responsibilities in mitigating and preparing for risks and in the aftermath of a natural disaster.</li>
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